TY - JOUR
T1 - Reviews: <em>Cantus Planus Regensburg</em>, <em>Corpus Antiphonalium Officii-Ecclesiae Centralis Europae</em>, <em>CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant</em>, <em>Global Chant Database</em>, and <em>The CANTUS Index</em>
JF - Journal of the American Musicological Society
SP - 267
LP - 285
DO - 10.1525/jams.2014.67.1.267
VL - 67
IS - 1
AU - Altstatt, Alison
Y1 - 2014/04/01
UR - http://jams.ucpress.edu/content/67/1/267.abstract
N2 - Cantus Planus Regensburg. David Hiley, Project Director. URL: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_I/Musikwissenschaft/cantus/Corpus Antiphonalium Officii-Ecclesiae Centralis Europae [CAO-ECE]. László Dobszay and Gábor Prószéky, Directors. URL: http://www.zti.hu/earlymusic/cao-ece/cao-ece.htmlCANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant. Debra Lacoste, Project Manager and Principal Researcher; Jan Koláček, Developer and Research Assistant; Kate Helsen, Research Assistant. URL: http://www.cantusdatabase.orgGlobal Chant Database. Jan Koláček, Director. URL: http://www.globalchant.org/The CANTUS Index. Jan Koláček, Project Director; Debra Lacoste, Project Manager; Elsa De Luca, Co-founder; Kate Helsen, Research Assistant. URL: http://cantusindex.org/Since the advent of the internet two decades ago, online digital projects in the field of chant studies have emerged which allow unprecedented free access to digital facsimiles, manuscript inventories, and tools for reportorial analysis. These open-access resources save valuable time in locating manuscript concordances and in the comparative analysis of repertoire and variants. They furthermore facilitate two new kinds of reading: the first, a broad survey across a wide sampling of manuscripts made possible by large data collections, and the second, the close examination of individual manuscripts in digital facsimile, unfettered by the constraints posed by traditional archival study. The emergence of such tools has moreover encouraged a refocusing of scholarly interest from the earliest origins of chant to include a diversity of repertoires and practices across space and time.For individual chant scholars, digital resources not only save valuable time and expand the possibilities of comparative research: they also offer an opportunity for digital publication. Once a standard system of crediting individual contributions has been established, projects such as the CANTUS Database and the CANTUS Index will provide the means for scholarly digital publication of manuscript descriptions and inventories—essential tools which are created in the research process, but which are increasing impractical to publish in a print medium. The publication of individual work in collaborative digital projects such as the CANTUS Database and the newly established CANTUS Index promises to benefit both the individual researcher, and the field as a whole. Yet numerous challenges confront project directors: foremost among these are the need to ensure the sustainability of digital projects across institutional and technological changes, and the imperative of establishing standards for crediting individual authors for their scholarly contributions.Ask a chant scholar, and you will discover that we are keepers of tables: meticulously compiled personal inventories of …
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